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        Date: 2023-06-10 08:09:05+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: rescuing computational literary studies (again)

In "What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?", Critical
Inquiry 49.4 (2023), Katherine Bode argues that,

> The debate about computational literary studies (CLS) is stuck.
> Forceful arguments are repeatedly made as to why literary studies
> must now—or could never—involve quantification, statistics, and
> algorithms (not least in this journal) with little sense of either
> side convincing the other of their case. Surveying this debate over
> the past decade, I propose that what seems a complete divergence of
> opinion obscures a fundamental agreement: that computation is
> separate from literary phenomena.

She goes on to argue for

> a different—performative—CLS [that] builds on and extends existing
> critical paradigms to enable literary studies in the postprint era.

Read it tonight!

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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